ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,518, issued on July 28, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Reflow oven" was invented by Yuwei Wang (Suzhou City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a reflow oven, which comprises: a soldering section provided with N soldering sub-zones and comprising a heating zone and a cooling zone, the cooling zone comprising a soldering sub-zone; an inlet zone and an outlet zone respectively provided at two ends of the soldering section; a first inlet zone isolation duct in communication with an upper side or a lower side of the inlet zone; M purification sub-zones, wherein each of the M ...